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Senior Principal Program Manager, Solaris Core Technologies

A Community Builder who Never Quits

Grace Lee Boggs
puts things in perspective quite nicely in this interview with Bill
Moyers.
It's all about building community and empowering people to take control
of their own own lives, instead of looking to some leader somewhere to
provide for them. Real change -- change for the good, anyway -- starts
down at
the grassroots and forces movement above. Not the other way around. And
when economic and governmental structures break down, that's no reason
to give up and complain and get distracted, it's simply a reason to
rebuild and focus on self sufficiency and distributing power so it can
be used to actually help people. That`s
how some people feel in Detroit. They are acting. They are
building. They
aren't giving up and leaving others behind. And at least one of
those community builders is 93. Ninety three.
Feeling down? Call Grace. She knows no other way.